THE OTHER KIDS RAN AWAY by Maiken Wiese is a tale about a young woman’s sexual awakening and the discovery of the wild creatures lurk in the shadows. Maiken Wiese is an actress and playwright from the Pacific Northwest who has re-planted herself in Brooklyn. Her writing has been performed at the Shelter, Sticky!, Gotham Comedy Club and Manhattan Theater Source.  Her short play, IN THE NINTH MONTH won the audience pick and was featured in the Encores week for the Estrogenius Festival 2011. Maiken received her BA in Drama from the University of Washington. She has acted at The Shelter, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Flea and Seattle Children’s Theater. Her acting film credits include “The Widowers” and “Awake.”

LENI & JOSEPH by Jacob Marx Rice is a tense exploration of the relationship between Nazi’s Jospeh Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl during the rise of Hitler. Jacob Marx Rice’s plays have been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Nuyorican Poets Café, Atlantic Theatre Stage 2, and others. His play CHEMISTRY has won the 2014 Excellence in Playwriting Award at the New York International Fringe Festival, 2015 Producer’s Pick at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and 2016 Producer’s Encore Pick at the Hollywood Fringe. Jacob is the winner of the 2012 Seymour Brick Memorial Prize for Playwriting and a finalist for the 2015 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference. He is currently an MFA candidate at NYU for Dramatic Writing.